Ex Parte Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
April 2016
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 523 So. 2d 87 - Ex Parte Mauricio · 531 So. 2d 60 - Clontz v. State · 527 So. 2d 1347 - Ex Parte Locke · 481 So. 2d 1183 - Jones v. State · 403 So. 2d 205 - Comer v. Rush
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ircumstantial evidence is sufficient when it is so strong and cogent as to indicate the guilt of the defendant to a moral certainty. That evidence should also exclude any inference consistent with the defendant's innocence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State · McWhorter v. State“The guilt of the defendant may be proved by circumstantial evidence as well as by direct evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.